Over Virtuele Desktop Infrastructuur

woensdag mei 18, 2011

Gaining Control of Your Business Systems With
Global Single Instances and Oracle Desktop Virtualization

Event Date: 05/26/2011 09:00
AM Pacific Daylight Time

Consolidating your business systems and information to as few
places as possible makes sense, but many organizations struggle creating
a Global Single Instance (GSI) such as this of their business systems.
Having fewer instances generally means that information and systems are
accessed remotely, which introduces latency and security issues that IT
has to contend with. In this one hour Oracle webcast, learn how:

Reducing the number of separate systems can directly reduce
IT spend, both in terms of hardware and management costs.

Oracle desktop virtualization can provide a high performance
solution to access these centralized systems.

The combination of GSIs and desktop virtualization can dramatically
increase productivity and save money.

Widely adopted for enterprise virtualization, consolidation, data
protection, and test and development, thousands of Sun ZFS Storage
Appliance customers from around the world have achieved savings of more
than $150 million in capital and operating expenses.

The Sun ZFS Storage Appliance
offers nearly 2x higher performance on backup and recovery for Oracle
Databases than EMC Data Domain 880 systems, and because it does not
require additional data movers, it is able to exploit the native toolset
of Oracle Recovery Manager to further shorten backup and recovery
windows.

Oracle IT's migration to the
Sun ZFS Storage appliance has achieved a 30 percent reduction in the
number of storage systems deployed, and has taken advantage of the
appliance's Hybrid Storage Pool technology to reduce the amount of
energy used per IOPS.

The Sun ZFS
Storage Appliance product line simplifies deployment, troubleshooting
and administration of storage for cloud computing with high throughput; a
rich set of data services, including thin-provisioning and
de-duplication; and, industry-leading storage analytics that offer
visibility into individual virtual machines and applications.

Supporting Quotes

“Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance delivers compelling value for
customers on three major fronts: best-in-class management, with DTrace
Analytics and Hybrid Storage Pools, a highly-scalable architecture using
integrated flash combined with the Solaris OS, and seamless integration
with Oracle applications,” said Scott Tracy, head of Flash and Disk
products, Oracle. “Engineered with Oracle software, the Sun ZFS Storage
appliance offers customers a mature storage solution they can trust.”

“Oracle’s ZFS Storage Appliance has always had great ‘specs’ but it is
clearly more than a pretty face, now that the functionality and value
of the product is clearly resonating with users,” said Mark Peters,
Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. “To maximize its
attraction Oracle is being smart by not only more tightly supporting its
own products – such as the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and its
‘business ready’ solutions – but also having qualified and integrated
over 70 broad industry applications; as users look for better TCO and
easier-to-use systems this sort of vendor pre-test and configuration is
increasingly popular and can be immensely valuable.”

“Oil and gas drilling data is increasingly granular and our customers
require a high-volume, high availability collection model today more
than ever,” said Suvinay Sinha, Principal Data Architect, Dynamic
Drilling Systems LP. “As part of our production data warehouse, Oracle’s
Sun ZFS Storage appliance offers an unrivaled feature set at its price
point -- simple configuration, built-in monitoring and enterprise-level
reliability. Most importantly, the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance has enabled
us to maintain our focus on growing the business and serving the needs
of our customers.”

“As the world’s
largest Location-as-a-Service provider, LOC-AID’s platform is connected
to all major cellular carriers in North America. We are consolidating a
number of storage activities on Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage appliance,”
said Manuel Morales, IT Director, LOC-AID. “We use it for two production
databases, streamlining our daily administration tasks and adding
another layer of data protection. We also use the ZFS Storage
Appliance’s snapshot capabilities in development and test to make our
software rollouts foolproof. And we plan to consolidate server
virtualization storage for our VM servers, so we can use the snapshot
capabilities for rolling back the complete machine if needed. Bottom
line, the Sun ZFS Storage appliance has allowed us to maximize our
storage space, meet market demands and keep costs under control.”

maandag jan 17, 2011

Organizations around the world are becoming more aware of their
impact on the environment and the steps they need to take to reduce
their eco-footprint. Most of these initiatives are based on reducing
power consumption in the datacenter, but another area of concern is the
amount of power consumed by desktop PCs and laptops.

Because of the sheer quantity of these devices in use across an
enterprise and the roughly 80-100 watts of power consumed by each one,
vast power savings can be realized by switching to eco-efficient Sun Ray
Clients. Consuming as little power as a night light, Sun Ray Clients
provide a rich desktop experience that offers high security, improved
mobility, and excellent manageability over existing PC-based
infrastructures. Learn how Sun Ray Clients can help your organization
meet its green computing objectives in this one hour live webinar.

woensdag nov 17, 2010

Improve Security and Accessibility for Healthcare with the Eco-Efficient Sun Ray 3 Series Clients

Event Date: 12/09/2010 09:00 AM Pacific Standard Time

Traditional desktop computers create a number of issues for
healthcare IT organizations. Standard PCs need to be replaced every few
years, consume a lot of power, have fans and other moving parts that
create noise and attract dust, and have local operating systems that
need to be updated and managed. Additionally, laptop computers are
frequent targets for theft and can contain large amounts of sensitive
information. A well designed thin client can solve all of these problems
and is an ideal client device for healthcare.

In this session, learn how the new Sun Ray 3 Series Clients can make
accessing healthcare applications and data more secure, enable easy
roaming access using a smart card, allow for long refresh cycles, and
reduce power consumption in healthcare organizations.

More than ever, end users are demanding access from different
operating systems and locations. You can provide this access easily by
installing applications, including the clients for Oracle Applications
such as Siebel, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft, not on end user computers,
but on servers in the data center. Then, simply provide access with
Oracle Secure Global Desktop to enable portable, secure access from
nearly any modern PC or Mac with a web browser.

In this session, learn the technical details of the Oracle Secure
Global Desktop architecture, how Oracle applications can be installed on
a small number of server systems and published to thousands of users,
providing high security and simpler administration.

The
Sun Ray 3i Client includes an integrated high definition (HD) display;
fast, flexible networking; five USB 2.0 ports; and enhanced usability.
The Sun Ray 3 Client is the lowest-cost thin client offered by Oracle.
Both deliver the benefits of the Sun Ray Client architecture: no local
operating system to manage, integrated smart card reader, and a secure
and energy efficient design.

The new Sun Ray 3 Series Clients are the latest additions to Oracle Virtualization,
the industry's most complete desktop-to-datacenter virtualization
portfolio; enabling customers to virtualize and manage their full
hardware and software stack from applications-to-disk.

Sun Ray Clients: Revolutionizing Desktops

Sun Ray Clients differ from complex PCs and other thin clients as they
have no local operating system, resulting in lower management and
administration costs and fewer security vulnerabilities.

Sun Ray Clients can display Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Windows, and
many other server hosted shared or virtual desktop operating systems,
without giving up features such as multimedia audio/video playback.

With no local data storage, Sun Ray Clients help eliminate the possibility of data loss from damage or theft of the device.

Cost-Effective, Compact and Secure Desktop Virtualization

The
new Sun Ray 3 Series Clients offer an integrated smart card reader and
energy efficiency with a Silver rating from EPEAT® and are ENERGY STAR®
5.0 Thin Client Category A compliant.

The new Sun Ray 3 Client features:

High-resolution monitor support, for standard and widescreen displays,
and is capable of monitor resolutions of up to 1920 x 1200.

Full featured connectivity, including five USB 2.0 ports and Gigabit Ethernet.

Energy efficiency, with typical power consumption of six watts and up
to 92 percent recyclable parts, the Sun Ray 3 Client has a mean time
between failure (MTBF) of more than 22 years. These features help reduce
environmental impact and lower total cost of ownership.

The new Sun Ray 3i Client features:

Integrated, high-resolution monitor, with 21.5 inch widescreen display
and full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution, providing more desktop real estate
for professional users. Also included is an analog video out port for
use with video projectors.

Built-in efficiency, with up to 98 percent recyclable parts, and features a MTBF of over eight years.

With the introduction of the Sun Ray 3i Client, customers now have a
choice of screen sizes with the Sun Ray 270 Client’s 17 inch integrated
monitor and the Sun Ray 3i Client with its 21.5 inch integrated monitor.

Sun Ray 2 Clients will be available to order through October 2010 to help customers transition.

Supporting Quote

“Oracle's Sun Ray thin clients are true plug and play devices that
offer a very high level of security with very low power consumption,
enabling users to connect to their hosted desktop without the expense of
a local desktop," said Wim Coekaerts, Oracle's senior vice president,
Linux and Virtualization Engineering. "With the new Sun Ray 3 Series
Clients, we are reducing power usage even more while continuing to
improve the performance and experience for the user."

With a highly secure
architecture, Oracle Secure Global Desktop helps keep sensitive data in
the datacenter behind the corporate firewall, and not on end user
systems or in the vulnerable demilitarized zone (DMZ), and can only be
accessed by authenticated users with appropriate privileges.

Oracle Secure Global Desktop enables an additional layer of security
for accessing sensitive enterprise applications, beyond using a web
browser alone, by providing a highly secure Java-based Web client that
does not retain cookies or utilize Web page cache files that could be
exploited.

The new release lowers
administration overhead by delivering secure access to server-hosted
applications and desktops from a wide variety of popular client devices.
Applications and desktops that run on Windows, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and other UNIX and Linux versions are supported, as well as mainframe and midrange applications.

Oracle Secure Global Desktop 4.6 is part of Oracle Virtualization,
the industry's most comprehensive desktop-to-datacenter virtualization
portfolio; enabling customers to virtualize and manage their full
hardware and software stack from applications to disk.

Secure, Remote Access with Improved Flexibility and Usability

Oracle
Secure Global Desktop 4.6 enhances the security and centralized
management of applications in the datacenter by delivering:

Greater browser flexibility: The Secure Global Desktop client has the
flexibility to be used with nearly any Java-enabled browser to access
server-hosted browser instances where the server-hosted application
requires a different browser, plug-ins, or settings. This allows
application access to the broadest range of users, while minimizing the
need for IT to deploy and maintain a large number of end-user browser
instances outside the datacenter.

Enhanced availability: The Array Resilience feature automatically
re-establishes connections to the server array after a primary server or
network failure to provide higher levels of availability.

Enhanced application launch control for users: Dynamic Launch reduces
administration overhead by giving end users greater control over
launching applications.

High-quality connection
protocol: Network connections are dynamically optimized for both high
and low bandwidth scenarios, providing end-users a high-quality
experience.

Supporting Quote

"
The new capabilities delivered in Oracle Secure Global Desktop 4.6
underscore our focus on making applications easier to deploy, manage and
support in virtualized datacenter environments,” said Wim Coekaerts,
senior vice president, Linux and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle.
“Oracle Secure Global Desktop 4.6 is the latest of many new desktop
virtualization products and capabilities recently announced including
new releases of Oracle VM VirtualBox, Sun Ray Software and Oracle
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. This demonstrates Oracle’s continued
commitment to providing a comprehensive desktop to datacenter
portfolio.”

The event highlights how Oracle Virtualization, the most complete and
integrated virtualization solutions portfolio, enables customers to go
beyond simple server consolidation to virtualize and manage their full
hardware and software stack, from desktop-to-datacenter.

Oracle Virtualization Management: The cost and effort of managing,
monitoring and provisioning virtual environments can be expensive and
taxing on IT departments. Oracle Enterprise Manager provides the most
comprehensive and integrated solution for managing applications and
infrastructure across physical and virtual environments, including
multi-architecture support for both x86 and SPARC.

Supporting Quote

"Unlike other vendors who provide virtualization solutions focused
solely on the infrastructure layer and consolidation, Oracle
Virtualization focuses on making applications easier to deploy, manage,
and support – from the desktop to the datacenter,” said, Edward Screven,
Oracle Chief Corporate Architect. “By taking a holistic approach that
addresses all layers of the enterprise datacenter, Oracle Virtualization
can help companies transform into effective service providers that
support business priorities, increase performance and reliability, and
reduce costs and inefficiencies.”

Supporting Resources

Register for the online event now, sessions begin at 9:00am PDT. On demand versions will also be available.

dinsdag aug 17, 2010

Join us for the live Virtualization Online Forum, as Oracle’s
Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect, and John Fowler,
Executive Vice President, Systems, kick-off a full agenda of analyst,
customer and product webcasts presenting how Oracle’s most complete and
integrated virtualization delivers more value than VMware.

Throughout the event you’ll have a unique opportunity to participate
in live chat with Oracle’s virtualization, database, middleware, and
management experts to get answers to your toughest virtualization
questions.

Learn how Oracle’s Virtualization can:

Virtualize and manage
your full hardware and software stack, from applications to disk

Significant operational and cost benefits beyond simple
consolidation

Integrated support backed by Oracle's world-class support
organization

By registering for this event you will be able
to attend any of the live webcasts available during this forum.

The ability to redirect requests to alternate sites if a datacenter is unavailable, providing enhanced disaster recovery;

Multi-company capability, enabling one deployment to share resources
and serve multiple domains and directories, helping service providers
and large enterprises with complex directory services architectures.

Enhanced backup,
notification, and storage with integrated backup and restore of Oracle
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure server settings, new system alarms and
search options, and enhancements to storage utilization.

Supporting Quote

"This release of Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is further
evidence of Oracle’s commitment to providing a complete portfolio of
virtualization solutions that helps reduce costs and leverages existing
IT resources,” said Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president, Linux and
Virtualization Engineering, Oracle. “The latest Improvements in
scalability, multimedia, and administration can help remove the barrier
to entry for organizations considering virtual desktop architectures,
and allow them to increase IT efficiency and flexibility.”

donderdag jul 22, 2010

Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure provides a complete
solution for managing, hosting, and providing access to virtualized
desktop operating systems hosted in the datacenter. Enterprise customers
in particular will benefit from the centralized management and lower
TCO of a VDI style architecture for their desktop deployments.

In this informative webinar, join Dirk Grobler, Oracle Virtual
Desktop Infrastructure Engineering Manager, as he explains the
architecture of Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, how it works, and
how it can be used in the modern enterprise to increase manageability,
security, and flexibility.

New Release of Oracle’s Sun Ray Software
Available Now

News Facts

Demonstrating its commitment to provide a
comprehensive desktop virtualization portfolio, Oracle announced the
latest Sun Ray Software 5 update. Sun Ray Software 5 is a secure, cost-effective
solution that delivers a rich virtual desktop experience to customers
using Oracle’s Sun Ray Clients or traditional PCs. New features include support for Oracle Enterprise Linux, an enhanced virtual desktop
client, and a Sun Ray connector for VMware View 4. The new features offer increased efficiency,
broader support for heterogeneous environments, improved ease-of-use,
enhanced user experience and help lower total cost of ownership. The Sun Ray Software 5 update is the latest
enhancement to Oracle’s virtualization portfolio; the industry's most
complete desktop-to-datacenter virtualization. With Oracle
virtualization, customers can efficiently and easily virtualize and
manage their full software and hardware stack, from applications to
disk. The Sun Ray Software 5 update can
be downloaded at: http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/061984.html. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.

Administrators
and End Users Benefit from Broader Support of Heterogeneous
Environments, Greater Efficiency, Access and Ease-of-Use

Enhanced virtual desktop client – installs on existing PCs and allows
them to be used as an alternative to a dedicated Sun Ray Client device.
This enables organizations to quickly experience many of the benefits
of the Sun Ray solution, using their existing desktops. New in this
release is support for Mac OS X computers, in addition to existing
support for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7;

Greater mobility – with the enhanced virtual
desktop client, customers can now use smart card readers on supported
PCs to “hotdesk” desktop sessions between PCs and dedicated Sun Ray
Clients. “Hotdesking” allows users instant access to their desktop
sessions simply by inserting a smart card into a Sun Ray Client or a PC
with a smart card reader;

With these new solutions,
Oracle continues to deliver on the industry's most complete
desktop-to-data center virtualization portfolio; enabling customers to more
efficiently utilize their full software and hardware stack.

Higher security --
native support for fiber optic networking via a Small Form Pluggable
(SFP) connection module which provides a more secure environment than
traditional copper ethernet and enables easy integration into a broader
range of customer environments.

Supporting Resources

About Oracle

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Sun VDI administration tools
The workshop begins with a comprehensive overview of the VDI 3 architecture

As the workshop progresses, you use lab equipment to install and configure prerequisite components such as SGD and Sun VirtualBox so that when you install the Sun VDI software, all of the necessary components are available. Once you install the VDI software, you learn how to configure desktop providers, which host virtual desktops, and how to use front-end user access devices such as Sun Ray thin clients or a web browser with SGD to access assigned virtual desktops. You also learn how to manage pools of desktops and the various parameters which control the content and behavior of desktop pools. Failover and cluster configurations are also covered for large-scale deployments.

Who can benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are PS/TS/SE/Service Partners/Customers.

donderdag mrt 25, 2010

This is the first update to Oracle VDI 3.1. In incorporates a number of
fixes, as you can read from the Release
Notes. But the most important thing is really the support of the
latest and greatest Oracle Sun Storage 7000 firmware 2010.Q1. Now VDI supports the
COMSTAR stack, now you see a storage utilization that you always wanted
to see. Way better CPU numbers, much better IOPS, online deduplication
for those who look into application streaming. This storage/VDI
combination really rocks.

Other improvements to be mentioned:

Win 7 support through the latest included SRS patch

VLAN support for Hyper-V

Loads of fixes included in VirtualBox 3.0.14

and many many more things.

The software download is available from the download center. The direct
download is here.